MACHINE STUDIES

“Human Study, Etude humaine #4” is a performative installation set as a primary school classroom where twenty robots act as minimal representations of the pupils. Their stylised behaviours during a performance explore group and individual behaviours and the acquisition of traits such as conformism, obsessiveness, …The children’s behaviours during the studying tasks are modulated by individual personality traits. Sometime disturbed and distracted by their schoolmates, boredom, tiredness, the weather, their moods, or the spectators’ presence in the room.